Chapter 7
Fabian's POV

I was in my classroom when I heard a door slam and someone walking around muttering really loudly. "Why'd he leave? Why'd he leave her? Why'd he leave me? Stupid dad! Stupid Micheal! Stupid world!" then a girl passed my room and went into the student lounge and I knew it was Melody. I just had to see her. I had to feast on her appearance. I walked into the student lounge and just stood there listing to her and watching her. Letting my eyes take in fully on what I helped to create. Pictures just didn't satisfy what it felt like to finally meet her. "Why did he kiss me if he didn't like me? HUH WORLD? WHY?" she screamed into the ceiling and just looked down.

"Um is everything alright in here?" I asked and she looked up and my heart just about broke in half. She looked exactly like Nina.

"What? Oh ya everything is fine. Um. I'm sorry but I don't know what to call you. I don't even know who you are." she said apologetically and my heart broke again when she said she didn't know who I was.

"I'm Fabian Rutter, your history teacher." I said and we shook hands."So you were yelling into the ceiling for what reason exactly?" I asked and she blushed and looked out of the window.

"Oh its nothing. Just boy drama. Huh funny I haven't been in this country for 1 day and I already have drama in my life. I think that's a new personal best." she said and I suddenly got an over protective feeling when she said drama. The boy drama part just about sent me off the edge. I guess it was just the dad in me wanting to protect my little girl.

"Can I ask you a question?" asked Melody staring into my eyes. I nodded and she looked down a little. "Is it wrong for a 16 year old girl to fantasize about meeting her dad?" asked Melody without looking up but her voice growing quieter. At those words my heart shattered. I wanted to give her a hug and tell her right on the spot that I was her dad, but I had promised Nina that I would wait until she could be here to. I just had to play dumb even if it killed me. "No of course not. Why? Don't you get to see your father when you go home?" I asked trying to keep my voice straight. She just shook her head.

"Can I confide in you on something about my dad?" she asked her voice still quiet and her head still down. She looked up and I nodded.

"My dad left me and my mom before I was born and every day since my mom told me he was alive, I've been dreaming on who he could be and where he was. I would dream every night that in the morning he would be home and that he never left. But when I was 4 all hopes and dreams of that shattered when my mom started to date some guy who didn't even live in America. I kept thinking that if I tried really hard and I found him that my mom would brake that mans heart and start seeing my dad again. Ever sense she started dating again, I've been putting my thoughts down on paper in letters that I would send to him, if I knew where he is. I just want information, like his name, but my mom wont let me know anything. All I know about him is that his name starts with the letter "F" and that he's British. Wow. I'm telling a person I don't even know. My mom doesn't even know this, but I feel like I can trust you." she was crying now and I was just staring at her. She looked so helpless and I knew she didn't tell Nina any of this. That man that she wants Nina to break up with is me and really that wouldn't make any difference. I wanted to give her the biggest hug and tell her everything would be alright but I couldn't. I just let her cry and slowly backed out of the room.

Once I left I went straight for my classroom and got out my cell phone. I went outside and called Nina. "Hello?" said Nina groggy and I knew she had just woken up. "Sorry love if I woke you up." I said

"No its fine. Why are you calling because I have some very important sleep to get back to." she said sounding irritated.

"Its about Melody."

"What about her? She hasn't gotten into trouble just yet, has she?" asked Nina sounding more awake than before.

"No, no she hasn't gotten into trouble. At least not yet. What I'm calling you about is that I just met her and she was really upset. She actually confided in me about how she wanted to meet me ever sense you told her that I wasn't dead. Which I'm thankful for." I said and I heard Nina move around and then her voice came on.

"Really? I never knew. She does seem to want information and every now and then I catch her staring at the picture of you that's in my room." she said sounding worried. I thought about how much hurt that were in Melody's eyes when she told me about everything.

"When can we tell her?" I asked.

"Soon love. Can I go back to sleep now its, like, 2 in the morning here and I have to get up at 5." said Nina and we said our goodbye's and she hung up.

I went back inside to find Micheal talking to Melody who looked like she would like nothing more than for him to disaper. "Look I said I was sorry for what I said. Please don't be mad." said Micheal sounding like he was pleading with her. Melody was standing up and facing him.

"Oh I'm mad alright! You kissed me then made it sound like nothing happened! You don't just do that! I don't want to hear apologies that you don't mean!" she screamed at him and she turned to leave, but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her back.

"How may more times do I have to apologize to you for you to get how sorry I am?" he asked.

"Um let me think. Oh ya, you don't. I don't want-" but Micheal cut her off by kissing her. I wanted to boil him alive. She didn't even pull away. She just stood there and let him kiss her.

"Oy! No PDA! This is a school!" I said but they just kept on kissing. So I went over there and pulled them apart. "Mr. Johnson, Miss. Martin. I will see you both after school for detention." I said walking away. When I looked back I saw that they were just kissing again. I shook my head and went to go and prepare for the day.